Welcome to Ashland Outdoor School!
Summer Camps. After School Classes. Homeschool Programs. Guest Teaching in Schools. School Field Trips. See our Winter Classes below...
Summer Camps. After School Classes. Homeschool Programs. Guest Teaching in Schools. School Field Trips. See our Winter Classes below...
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Weekly Blacksmithing
Ages: 8 and up. Location: Talent. Time Slots: 2:00-3:20 or 3:30-5:00. Cost: $225 - $550 sliding scale* per session Join us on Thursdays at the forge. Learn the 7 fundamental techniques of blacksmithing. Make something each class. Take home what you make and the skill you develop too. Participants will learn how to manage the charcoal forge, use hammer, tongs and other tools, make items from mild or high carbon steel, and work alone or with teammates. All participants will need to have safety glasses, leather gloves, closed toed shoes and participate in a safety orientation. Dates: 2:00 - 3:20 Now Enrolling for February 5 to March 12 (No Class March 5). 3:30 - 5:00 Now Enrolling for February 19 - March 26 (No Class March 5). Knife Making Workshops: Blacksmithing for Young Smiths and Adults Next Weekend Class: February 21-22 (10:00 - 2:00) Adults. Kids ages 7 and up. Cost: $225 - $550 sliding scale* Would you like to make a knife? Join this two-day workshop and transform a piece of high carbon steel into your own hand-forged knife. Workshop will Cover: Safety Basic Forging Techniques Tool Use Types of Steel Heat-treating and Tempering High Carbon Steel *This is a hands-on workshop. Come prepared to work on your project both days. What to Bring: Lunch, Water, Safety Glasses, Ear Plugs, Leather Gloves, and plenty of patience + enthusiasm! Location: Talent, Oregon. |
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Wilderness Survival & Earth Skills Program
Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:00. Ages: 6 - 17.
Winter Session begins January 14. Ashland.
$275 - $527 sliding scale* per season. (Fall, Winter, Spring). Drop-in Rate: $40.
Join us to learn from nature through the seasons in our Fall-Spring Wilderness Skills Program. You can sign up for one season or join for the whole school year. On our adventures, we will explore nature, practice wilderness skills, share stories, and complete hands-on projects and activities that bring us close to nature and teach us about ourselves.
Skills we will cover in the program include:
- Shelter
- Containers (burn bowls, baskets)
- Fire (bowdrill, hand-drill, matches, tipi fire, star fire, tinder identification, and rainy conditions)
- Food (learn to recognize common poisonous and useful plants. Learn to make survival traps - no animals will be trapped)
- Hunting Tools: Primitive spears, atl-atl, bow, arrows, slings, bolas.
- Tool Making: bone, stone, and wood.
- Hide Tanning
- Camp Location and simple navigation and mapping
- Understanding and using Field Guides (books) and Nature Journaling
- Wildlife Tracking: identification of track and sign
- Bird Language: recognizing alarm behavior and 'reading concentric rings'
- Sensory Awareness Techniques: Including owl eyes, fox walking, body radar, and sit spots.
- Games that challenge awareness and nature skills
- Nature Journaling
- Field Guide Use
This is a hands-on class for anyone interested in stepping into nature and learning some of the 'old ways.'